Vacation (album)

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Vacation
Studio album by Go-Go's
Released	August 1982
Recorded	1981-1982
Genre	Rock New Wave
Length	32:17
Label	I.R.S.
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Go-Go's chronology
Beauty and the Beat (1981) Vacation (1982) Talk Show (1984)

Vacation was the Go-Go's second album, released in 1982. Both "Vacation" and "Cool Jerk" scored on the pop charts, and the Go-Go's were riding high at this time, the group's future to all outward appearances looking bright. Signs of future problems were beginning to show however, as the members' drug use and internal fighting began to escalate.

The song "Vacation" was issued as what was perhaps the first cassette single.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Vacation" (Caffey, Valentine, Wiedlin) – 2:59
2. "He's So Strange" (Caffey, Custis, Phillips, Wiedlin) – 2:58
3. "Girl of 100 Lists" (Wiedlin) – 2:20
4. "We Don't Get Along" (Valentine) – 2:46
5. "I Think It's Me" (Caffey, Carlisle) – 2:42
6. "It's Everything But Partytime" (Schock, Wiedlin) – 3:21
7. "Get Up and Go" (Caffey, Wiedlin) – 3:18
8. "This Old Feeling" (Caffey, Wiedlin) – 3:06
9. "Cool Jerk" (Storball) – 2:53
10. "The Way You Dance" (Caffey, Valentine, Wiedlin) – 2:56
11. "Beatnik Beach" (Caffey, Carlisle) – 2:53
12. "Worlds Away" (Valentine, Wiedlin) – 4:00

[edit] References to the song "Vacation" in popular culture

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• "Vacation" was featured in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, as footage was shown of President George W. Bush playing golf prior to the 9/11 attacks.
• The single is also heard in The Simpsons episode "Mobile Homer".
• The single is also heard in the Rugrats Special Vacation. The producers and cast of the Rugrats also permissively rewrote words to the single, basing it on the special episode, and recorded it with Cheryl Chase singing.
• The single is also heard in a commercial for Priceline.com (the 'More ways to save' commercial).
• Kelly Clarkson covered the song in the 2003 film From Justin to Kelly.
• The single is also heard in the Duckman episode "In the Nam of the Father".
• The single is also used in the Scrubs episode "My Conventional Wisdom"
• The single was used in the American theatrical trailers to the British film Mr. Bean's Holiday.
• The single is used as the title theme to the short "Pikachu's Vacation" preceding Pokemon: The First Movie.

[edit] Chart positions